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Twitter, one of the biggest communication networks of the last 100 years, is ranked as the 2nd most popular social network among teens. Back in 2006, Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter, originally planned for Twitter to be a site similar to text messaging, but on a website so that users could communicate online. It later developed into a popular social network site where members could send and read "tweets" about anything and everything. But, where did the name 'Twitter' come from? "...we came across the word 'twitter', and it was just perfect. The definition was a short burst of inconsequential information, and chirps from birds. And that's exactly what the product was", explained Dorsey. It had all began on March 21, 2006 at exactly 9:50 pm when the very first message on Twitter was sent by Dorsey, the founder himself. It read, "just setting up my twitter."
Logo
If you ask somebody what the bird logo represents, they will most likely answer Twitter. But, did you know that Twitters logo was redesigned a couple different times before it looked like it does now? From March 2006 until September 2010, Twitter's logo was a simple colorless bird signature. On February 27, 2012, the site underwent a redesign, and the new logo was redesigned and influenced from Larry Bird of the NBA's Boston Celtics. Finally, on June 5, 2012, Twitter had announced an official logo for the website and it resembled a mountain bluebird. The mountain bluebird logo remains still to day.
140 character limit
I'm sure all of us Twitter users have wondered why you can only tweet 140 characters, well atleast I have! Since Twitter was originally planned out to be a text messaging site, they wanted to restrain users to only a 140 character limit; it was the same limit that mobile phone company's used as well. The website developed and Dorsey wanted to keep the limit making it different from other social networks. While Dorsey thought it was creative, I, myself do not like it. I find it hard to express your feelings, or even try to have a conversation user to user on the site with only 140 character limit.
A study by Pear Analytics supervised 2000 tweets over a two week period in the summer of 2009 and came to a conclusion of the contents in the tweets;
Pointless babble - 40%
Conversational - 38%
Pass-along value - 9%
Self promotion - 6%
Spam - 4%
News - 4%
However, these statistics don't surprise me at all because when I'm scrolling down my Twitter timeline all I read is tweets from people complaining, gossiping, or stressing over the most pointless things! I hope people realize that complaining about things on Twitter won't change or help your problems!
By 2012, the online social networking site was known worldwide and gained over 500 million users. Today, Twitter has over 500 million users, with over 100 thousand users signing up everyday. Twitter averages a total of 58 million tweets per day; with over 9 thousand tweets per second! It has became one of the most popular micro-blogging services in the world. I can't say that I tweet a lot in a day, but I do go on Twitter frequently. It's a great way to communicate, share thoughts, express how you're feeling (to an extent), and even make new friends! 99% of my friends have a Twitter account, and I know they love it! Not to mention, on this very own blog, 53% of bloggers reading my posts said they'd prefer Twitter over the other social networks listed!
Tune in next week to find out the most popular social networking site!!! Leave a comment below on which social network you think is the most popular!
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